James hardwicke

[CherokeeOwl2🦉 @CherokeeOwl2]

Philly Cheesesteak Casserole

Ingredients
1 Ib ground beef
1 small onion, sliced
1 green bell pepper, sliced
8 oz mushrooms, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup shredded provolone or mozzarella
½ cup cream cheese
½ cup beef broth
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Salt and black pepper

Directions
Brown the ground beef in a skillet; drain excess grease.
Add onion, bell pepper, mushrooms, and garlic. Cook until softened.
Stir in cream cheese, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper.
Transfer to a baking dish and top with shredded cheese.
Bake at 375°F (190°C) for 15-20 minutes, until bubbly and golden.
Serve hot.

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The Steak Bake Battalions

I have said it for years.

The men who will save this country can be found every morning, from six until half past eight, at almost every Greggs in the land.

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Working-class men. Middle-class men. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen and Northern Irishmen.

British men.

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They build Britain.

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They rarely appear on television.

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Completely.

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A deep attachment to home.

A quiet patriotism.

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Millions of them.

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The backbone of Britain.

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There is a wall of concrete in China holding back so much water that 2 scientists sat down and calculated what it does to the length of a day on Earth.

It does something. They measured it.

The Three Gorges Dam sits on the Yangtze. Its reservoir holds about 40 cubic kilometres of water, roughly 10 trillion gallons, and it holds it 175 metres above sea level.

That is 39 trillion kilograms of water, lifted up and parked in one place.

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Earth is a spinning object.

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The reservoir first reached that level in October 2010.

Nobody has ever missed a train because of it. That is not the point.

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The 2004 Sumatra earthquake, the one that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami, shortened the day by 2.68 microseconds. The 2011 Japan earthquake sped the planet up by about 1.8 microseconds.

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Now the part that matters for anyone living in India or Bangladesh.

In July 2025, machinery arrived at the edge of a canyon in Medog county, in southeastern Tibet. Premier Li Qiang announced the start of construction on what will be the largest hydropower project on Earth.

It is on the Yarlung Tsangpo. The river drops about 2,000 metres in the space of 50 kilometres there, through one of the deepest canyons in the world. That drop is the reason engineers want it.

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